Tasia Valenza is an Emmy nominated on-screen actor and an Emmy-winning voiceover actor who is one of the TOP female voiceover artists in the United States. Earlier in her career, she was on All My Children, had appearances on Star Trek: The Next Generation, Cheers, and The A-Team.  After more than 10 years as an on-screen actress, she then shifted to voiceover acting and never looked back. 

You may have heard Tasia's voice in commercials, narrations, promotions, and animation—especially as iconic female characters in video games and animated TV shows. Examples include voicing the seductress Poison Ivy in the Batman Arkham Knight series and Jedi ShaakTi in Star Wars: The Clone Wars. She's also worked for companies like: Coke, Cheerios, Best Buy, Chase Bank, KFC, and Hallmark. Plus, if you're a long-time soap opera fan, you may have heard her as the female voice of SoapNet.

Tasia now coaches both voiceover actors and non-actors who are interested in learning how to "Give Great Voice" by using the remarkable power of tone plus intention to  move, touch, and impact.

Resources

• TasiaValenza.com
• Tasia's TEDx Talk on Give Great Voice
• VO Buzz Weekly Tasia Valenza Interview, Pt. 1
• VO Buzz Weekly Tasia Valenza Interview, Pt. 2
• Jessica's Affirmations
• Clubhouse App

Contact Info:

Tasia Valenza
@tasiavalenza (Instagram)
Tasia Valenza on LinkedIn

Julie Berman - Host
www.womenwithcooljobs.com
@womencooljobs (Instagram)

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I absolutely LOVE being the host and producer of "Women with Cool Jobs", where I interview women who have unique, trailblazing, and innovative careers. It has been such a blessing to share stories of incredible, inspiring women since I started in 2020.

If you have benefitted from this work, or simply appreciate that I do it, please consider buying me a $5 coffee. ☕️

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How can informational interviews help you find a cool job? An informational interview is an informal chat (like a chat over coffee) that you can have with someone who has a really cool job. This is one of the best, (basically) FREE methods to find out the nitty-gritty details of a job that interests you from a woman who is doing it right now. Find out if you'll love it or if it's actually not for you at all!

In this bonus episode, you'll learn:

• What are informational interviews?
• What questions do you ask?
• Who do you contact?
•  How do you conduct  informational interviews?
• How long should it be?
• Should it be in person, virtual, or does it even matter? 
• How should I follow up if I do love her job?

It works for literally every career. Plus, the woman you interview will be excited that you're excited about her cool job!

Contact Info:
Julie Berman - Host
www.womenwithcooljobs.com
@womencooljobs (Instagram)

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I absolutely LOVE being the host and producer of "Women with Cool Jobs", where I interview women who have unique, trailblazing, and innovative careers. It has been such a blessing to share stories of incredible, inspiring women since I started in 2020.

If you have benefitted from this work, or simply appreciate that I do it, please consider buying me a $5 coffee. ☕️

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/julieberman

Thank you so much for supporting me -- whether by sharing an episode with a friend, attending a LIVE WWCJ event in Phoenix, connecting with me on Instagram @womencooljobs or LinkedIn, sending me a note on my website (www.womenwithcooljobs.com), or by buying me a coffee! It all means so much. <3

Shera Walker is a master electrician and a handywoman who is breaking down stereotypes and creating a life that balances work, family, and fun. She has done both commercial and residential work as an electrician and now has her own handywoman business  called “Mizz-Fix-It”  based in Gainesville, FL. 

Shera apprenticed in high school under a master electrician after winning a statewide wiring competition, and went on to get her master electrician license in Georgia in 2001. She learned the trade while working with industry veterans, many times on incredibly old houses that could be over 100 years old with original wiring. 

Later, Shera moved to the Dominican Republic for 6 years to do missionary work and was also asked to participate in some construction projects. While there, she learned many different construction skills and was able to put them to use when she came back to the United States. In 2020, Shera started her handywoman business “Mizz-Fix-It” and also started to renovate tiny homes. 

Contact Info:

Shera Walker
@mizz.fix.it 

• Shera's YouTube Channel: SheezElectric

Julie Berman - Host
www.womenwithcooljobs.com
@womencooljobs (Instagram)

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I absolutely LOVE being the host and producer of "Women with Cool Jobs", where I interview women who have unique, trailblazing, and innovative careers. It has been such a blessing to share stories of incredible, inspiring women since I started in 2020.

If you have benefitted from this work, or simply appreciate that I do it, please consider buying me a $5 coffee. ☕️

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/julieberman

Thank you so much for supporting me -- whether by sharing an episode with a friend, attending a LIVE WWCJ event in Phoenix, connecting with me on Instagram @womencooljobs or LinkedIn, sending me a note on my website (www.womenwithcooljobs.com), or by buying me a coffee! It all means so much. <3

Amy Elliott is an Additive Manufacturing Scientist (aka 3D Printing Scientist) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory where she researches 3D printing as an energy-efficient manufacturing method.  These aren't your hobbyist 3D printers. These are hundreds of thousands, if not million, dollar machines that create metals, ceramics, and very large plastics.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory is THE epicenter of 3D-printing research in the United States. It is the largest U.S. Department of Energy science and energy laboratory in the country.

Amy is both a scientist and an engineer conducting research in the areas of inkjet-based metal and ceramic 3D printing, and she holds several patents.

Resources

• If/Then Initiative
• Amy's YouTube video
• Definition of Additive Manufacturing
• Example of Binder Jetting: Amy Works with This Machine 

Contact Info:

Amy Elliott
@amytheengineer

• Oak Ridge National Laboratory -- Amy's Bio
• If/Then Collection: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Ambassador --  Amy's Bio
• IMDB -- Amy's Bio

Julie Berman - Host
www.womenwithcooljobs.com
@womencooljobs (Instagram)

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I absolutely LOVE being the host and producer of "Women with Cool Jobs", where I interview women who have unique, trailblazing, and innovative careers. It has been such a blessing to share stories of incredible, inspiring women since I started in 2020.

If you have benefitted from this work, or simply appreciate that I do it, please consider buying me a $5 coffee. ☕️

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/julieberman

Thank you so much for supporting me -- whether by sharing an episode with a friend, attending a LIVE WWCJ event in Phoenix, connecting with me on Instagram @womencooljobs or LinkedIn, sending me a note on my website (www.womenwithcooljobs.com), or by buying me a coffee! It all means so much. <3

As the Chief Community Officer at Commsor, Alex Angel is a community-management expert for online environments. She manages a community of community managers. Accordingly, she helps define best practices and guidelines for her entire industry along with industry colleagues (who are part of her community.)

Alex previously worked at Reddit and Nike, and did community management consulting.

Community managers ensure community health for private, online communities established by a business or a brand.  Responsibilities include: transformation, amplification, engagement, and retention.

The community management field is growing and there is a lot of opportunity. Many community managers got into the industry by chance or because they were already managing other communities unpaid and learned it could be a career. 

It may be a good fit if you're a generalist that is good with transition, has strong written and verbal communication skills, enjoys planning and strategizing, is tech-savvy, and you have strong personal boundaries and analytical skills.

 Resources

• Community Club
• The Community Roundtable

Contact Info:
Alex Angel
Alex on LinkedIn

Julie Berman - Host
www.womenwithcooljobs.com
@womencooljobs (Instagram)

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I absolutely LOVE being the host and producer of "Women with Cool Jobs", where I interview women who have unique, trailblazing, and innovative careers. It has been such a blessing to share stories of incredible, inspiring women since I started in 2020.

If you have benefitted from this work, or simply appreciate that I do it, please consider buying me a $5 coffee. ☕️

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/julieberman

Thank you so much for supporting me -- whether by sharing an episode with a friend, attending a LIVE WWCJ event in Phoenix, connecting with me on Instagram @womencooljobs or LinkedIn, sending me a note on my website (www.womenwithcooljobs.com), or by buying me a coffee! It all means so much. <3

Myria Perez is a Fossil Preparator (aka paleontologist) at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas, Texas. She reconstructs the Earth’s history by carefully unearthing each new fossil and then puts these prehistoric dinosaur puzzle pieces back together.

Myria fell in love with dinosaurs as a little girl and started volunteering at 12 years old. She has worked with and been mentored by some of the most well-renowned pioneers of paleontology, including Robert T. Bakker and Dr. Kay Behrensmeyer. Notably, she cleaned fossils and created content for an exhibit at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.

There is a lot of variation with her job. She uses all sorts of tools as a fossil preparator, including: a hand saw, toothbrush, and an air scribe. She has even used a porcupine quill! She works in a lab environment, which takes some intense focus. She teaches and collaborates with volunteers at the museum. Plus, she gets to go out on digs to look for fossils in the field. 

Resources

• IfThenExhibit.org - Myria's bio
• Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
• The Association for Materials and Methods in Paleontology
• Dallas Paleontological Society

Contact Info:
Myria Perez
@paleontologica
Myria's YouTube channel

Julie Berman - Host
www.womenwithcooljobs.com
@womencooljobs (Instagram)

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I absolutely LOVE being the host and producer of "Women with Cool Jobs", where I interview women who have unique, trailblazing, and innovative careers. It has been such a blessing to share stories of incredible, inspiring women since I started in 2020.

If you have benefitted from this work, or simply appreciate that I do it, please consider buying me a $5 coffee. ☕️

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/julieberman

Thank you so much for supporting me -- whether by sharing an episode with a friend, attending a LIVE WWCJ event in Phoenix, connecting with me on Instagram @womencooljobs or LinkedIn, sending me a note on my website (www.womenwithcooljobs.com), or by buying me a coffee! It all means so much. <3

Excavator,  Dozer, Loader, Grader, Rock truck. What's it like to be a heavy equipment operator sitting in the cab of a giant machine where the tires are as big as you?

Sam Inskip is a Heavy Equipment Operator in rural Yukon, Canada (which is super far north, next to Alaska.) She has operated more than 10 types of equipment in many different environments: in civil work, gold mining, large earth-moving remediation, and care and maintenance for roads, snow removal, small buildings and more.

Sam spent a year at university studying business and psychology before finding her love for equipment. She didn’t grow up around equipment and didn’t realize it was an option. She was hooked the first time she sat in a cab at 19.

Resources

• @WomenOperatorsWorldwide on Instagram
• ITA Heavy Equipment Operator (Program)

Contact Info:
Sam Inskip
@simplyysams

Julie Berman - Host
www.womenwithcooljobs.com
@womencooljobs (Instagram)

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I absolutely LOVE being the host and producer of "Women with Cool Jobs", where I interview women who have unique, trailblazing, and innovative careers. It has been such a blessing to share stories of incredible, inspiring women since I started in 2020.

If you have benefitted from this work, or simply appreciate that I do it, please consider buying me a $5 coffee. ☕️

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/julieberman

Thank you so much for supporting me -- whether by sharing an episode with a friend, attending a LIVE WWCJ event in Phoenix, connecting with me on Instagram @womencooljobs or LinkedIn, sending me a note on my website (www.womenwithcooljobs.com), or by buying me a coffee! It all means so much. <3

As luck (or fate) would have it, Julie Berman created her own cool job by starting the "Women with Cool Jobs" podcast in Oct. 2020. After a thought kept coming back to her about how cool it would be to learn more about inspirational women with cool jobs, she decided to create a podcast. She had never listened to a podcast and didn't even know where the podcast app icon was on her iPhone.

Fast forward more than a year later, and Julie’s whole way of thinking had shifted because of what she had learned and experienced. Her thought process became more expansive after spending so much time thinking about the possibilities and learning from incredible, diverse guests. 

Julie, the host and producer, interviews women who have unique, trailblazing, and innovative careers. You’ll hear from incredible women in a wide variety of fields, and hopefully some that you've never heard of before. Her goal is to inspire and empower women to do things and be things they never considered or knew were possible by highlighting the incredible careers women have right now.  
  

Here are a few takeaways:

• The truths you tell yourself are not always true.
• Naming the emotions related to a specific fear can actually help you better understand why you are scared.
• A laser-beam focus on your goal (aligning every area of your life like exercise, mental health, supportive relationships, career experience/education, and support system) will best enable you to reach your goal quicker and with more success.
• Having a possibilities-oriented mindset will allow you to start with one career goal in mind and then pivot if you discover a new option that lights you up.

Contact Info:
Julie Berman - Host
www.womenwithcooljobs.com
@womencooljobs (Instagram)

Send Julie a text!!

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I absolutely LOVE being the host and producer of "Women with Cool Jobs", where I interview women who have unique, trailblazing, and innovative careers. It has been such a blessing to share stories of incredible, inspiring women since I started in 2020.

If you have benefitted from this work, or simply appreciate that I do it, please consider buying me a $5 coffee. ☕️

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/julieberman

Thank you so much for supporting me -- whether by sharing an episode with a friend, attending a LIVE WWCJ event in Phoenix, connecting with me on Instagram @womencooljobs or LinkedIn, sending me a note on my website (www.womenwithcooljobs.com), or by buying me a coffee! It all means so much. <3

Tami Forman is the Executive Director of Path Forward, a nonprofit organization that creates mid-career returnships to help caregivers return to full-time work. "Returnships" provide an on-ramp for individuals (often women) who are ready to return to full-time work after taking a break to care for loved ones. Whether it’s been 5 years or 15 years, getting back into the workforce after being a caregiver is challenging.
 
As a nonprofit executive, Tami wears many hats and no day is like the next. Her goal is to bring talent back into the workforce and to identify future talent.  Path Forward has worked with more than 80 employers, including Amazon, Netflix, Walmart, Apple, Verizon, and more.

Returnships are like the cousin of internships. For internships, you're a young adult who is in or who has just graduated from college. For returnships, you're an adult who already worked for at least 5 years, took time off to care for a child or an adult, and you're now wanting to return to the workforce. Often, returnees are in their 40s, have an undergraduate degree (or more), and have 10 years of career experience. Returnees are highly educated, skilled, and talented individuals who can make incredible contributions.
 
 Resources

• 50 Ways to Get a Job , a book by Dev Aujla 

Contact Info:
Tami Forman
https://www.pathforward.org/
[email protected]

Julie Berman - Host
www.womenwithcooljobs.com
@womencooljobs (Instagram)

Send Julie a text!!

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I absolutely LOVE being the host and producer of "Women with Cool Jobs", where I interview women who have unique, trailblazing, and innovative careers. It has been such a blessing to share stories of incredible, inspiring women since I started in 2020.

If you have benefitted from this work, or simply appreciate that I do it, please consider buying me a $5 coffee. ☕️

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/julieberman

Thank you so much for supporting me -- whether by sharing an episode with a friend, attending a LIVE WWCJ event in Phoenix, connecting with me on Instagram @womencooljobs or LinkedIn, sending me a note on my website (www.womenwithcooljobs.com), or by buying me a coffee! It all means so much. <3

Erin Hernandez-Reisner's start in the photography world was unexpected-- she thought she'd be an actress. Instead, her ex-husband's dad handed her a camera to support him going to law school. From the beginning, her natural skill combined with her deep understanding of the beauty and imperfections of life are what make her an incredibly talented and sought-after artist.

Erin  creates museum-quality art by capturing meaningful moments in someone’s life--whether it's weddings, senior portraits, or even exploring physical and emotion trauma. Erin is the co-owner of Photos Edge with her husband since 2007. She has been published over 200 times in publications such as Professional Photographer Magazine, Rangefinder, and The Knot. Her images have been on the covers of over 30 magazines and books.

She also discusses what it is like to be Autistic, the adaptations she has made (like discovering the glory of shopping at luxury stores!), and how she uses her sensory skills to create the photographic outcome she wants.

Trigger warning: Erin bravely shares childhood trauma during the interview and how that affected her. Please be aware in case this may trigger something for you. 

Resources

• Professional Photographers of America
• Clubhouse - Find the photography groups

Contact Info:
Erin Hernandez-Reisner
https://photosedge.com/
@erinhernandezreisner (Instagram)

Julie Berman - Host
www.womenwithcooljobs.com
@womencooljobs (Instagram)

Send Julie a text!!

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I absolutely LOVE being the host and producer of "Women with Cool Jobs", where I interview women who have unique, trailblazing, and innovative careers. It has been such a blessing to share stories of incredible, inspiring women since I started in 2020.

If you have benefitted from this work, or simply appreciate that I do it, please consider buying me a $5 coffee. ☕️

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/julieberman

Thank you so much for supporting me -- whether by sharing an episode with a friend, attending a LIVE WWCJ event in Phoenix, connecting with me on Instagram @womencooljobs or LinkedIn, sending me a note on my website (www.womenwithcooljobs.com), or by buying me a coffee! It all means so much. <3